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It makes a big enough difference that none of you will take $5000. Got it.

I'll take the high road with the 'James' thing. Ad hom attacks are the domain of people with no ability to effectively debate. So I won't be going there.

You can bring a friend and as long as...

Talk is cheap.

That makes two of us so we are at least on equal footing.

Again, when the entire track is cached, like Tidal does for instance on Windows (and I think OS/X), what happens when the cable is pulled...

I think we all know what we need to know about each other. I have 100% of the trust you actually place in your own ears. If you don't trust them neither do I.

For all the posturing I'm the only...

Here's what I'm saying. In your own showroom, once you are blinded to the fact of what Ethernet cable is in the system you can't proverbially snatch the $5000 out of my hand. Pick any ears you like....

Out of curiosity why it is relevant to people hearing stuff that isn't there? Ethernet is Asynchronous, buffered, high bandwidth. My 10GBe connection can transfer a 16/44.1 track in literally 0.05...

No, we are talking about the most important issue: Your ears only, bias controlled evaluation. We are talking about doing this in a stack OF YOUR CHOOSING from the USB cable on back.

Nope, we do this in your stack from your USB cable on back.

The server/client machines will be a stripped down Linux Server with SMB for the file serving. Client computer will be a Windows 10...

I've had the AQ Vodka, WW Starlight CAT8, Nordost Heimdall II.

I'll put my proverbial blindfold up against anyone's open ears/mind. Your $1000 to my $5000. I'll provide a server/switch/client...

I found the difference is in the blindfold.

CAT5e is way more than enough. I have some 13 year old CAT5E that I just put a 10GBe switch and NIC in play. From RAM disk I'm hitting 1280MB a second consistently. That's two CD's every second. I...

Normally you shouldn't with equipment that's up to EMI standards.

Proper cable routing is always a must. This is why I like WiFi. If you need go with STP cabling. Even if you just do it with no...

Adelphos speaker kit from Meniscus. Designed by Jeff Bagby. I've heard these and to say I was stunned was an understatement for these time aligned 2 way speakers. $820 for the premium kit and figure...

Yarp :-)

Sorry, NEC allows for grounding a subpanel in a detached structure.

It means the panel has it's own ground rod so the ground reference point changes and I think is code dependent. Yes balanced power has a lot more requirements. I don't see the cost in a systems that...

I'll send you two sets of randomly labeled cables. Two burned in and two virgin. You'll have 30 days to perform sighted, ears only, evaluation with no one else conducting parts of the evaluation...

Didn't say you don't do both. Pointing out that the root problem for a lot of setups is never addressed and you can try as many bandaids in the form of power cords as you want. It not solving the 'in...

How many people have spent more on P.C's than it would have cost to either put in a dedicated sub-panel with it's own ground or better yet gone with -60 | 0 | +60 balanced power?

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I had both the AC14 and the AC9 (to my amp)

I had a loaner set of some various Pangea P.C.'s

1. Incredibly stiff and hard to route
2. Heavy enough that without cable lifters of correct height they would unplug
3. Compared to my 14AWG...

In the testing I've done I've yet to see any degradation to SQ via WiFi. Even when I was disabling the WiFi during playback (and playing out of buffer) both on a Cary Audio DMS 500 and a Server /...

Here is a good thread on Jitter and static storage. Regardless of the style of static storage (volatile or non-volatile).

I'm trying to make $$ with it. Only done it once so far. I like the people that agree to it initially and then start changing the dates they can do it multiple time and then not doing it at all....